Semester
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Being a senior at UGA, I decided back in August I was going to take every opportunity possible to help better myself and my future career. When Dr. Lacy talked to our class about the Sustainable Beef and Grain Study Abroad Program, I was immediately hooked. To be able to spend my last Spring Break…
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It’s so hard to believe that it’s finally time to go to Uruguay! I’ve had an unusually busy week so it really hasn’t sunk in that I’ll be in South America by lunchtime tomorrow. I’ve been so worried about making sure that I’ve gotten everything packed up, getting all my travel documents together, and class…
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I normally head down to my hometown of Cairo, Georgia for the first weekend of spring break and work a few days on my family’s farm in order to make a little extra cash before I head down to Mexico Beach, Florida the following monday with a group of friends. I get the same old…
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Oh my, oh my, oh my! In about 48 hours, I will be sitting in Miami International Airport waiting for my connecting flight from Atlanta, Georgia to Montevideo, Uruguay. The plane ride to Uruguay will be about 10 hours and I think I want to use that time to sleep, so I plan on staying…
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As one of the worlds best procrastinators, getting ready to leave on Friday only means one thing: I don’t need to start packing until Thursday night around 11:45pm. While there are many emotions that go into leaving for trips, as a seasoned traveler I know that once I make it to the airport, or better…
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Hey Guys, I recently went on the Coffee: From Bean to Cup study abroad in Costa Rica. On the trip, we visited several coffee farmers and learned about coffee production. This blog post is going to be about my favorite farmer of the entire trip, Oldemar. In most cases, coffee farmers sell the coffee cherries…
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Today is the day I leave for Costa Rica, I can’t even believe it! When I signed up for the trip last Spring, I did not realize how quickly it would come around. Going to another country is always stressful with the packing process because of variant weather and endless general unknowns, but with the…
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While living in Sydney was a new experience in itself, I definitely took advantage of being in a brand new continent on the other side of the world and travelled as much as I could. My first big trip was to Queensland to travel around and, obviously, dive the Great Barrier Reef. My friend and…
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After making the 30+ hour trek all the way to the land down under, I was immediately greeted with warm weather and welcoming people. The first day I spent in Sydney I actually travelled about an hour north to Katoomba, where an iconic New South Wales mountains range, the Blue Mountains, is located. After trudging/slowly…
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Tonight (well, yesterday now), around 6:30 p.m., most of the turtle team for Keys beach and two volunteers from North Friars met at North Friars to excavate a nest that had hatched the night before. North Friars hatching rate is much, much higher than that of Keys and I had not seen any hatchlings naturally…